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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.geomesa.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

quasar.ai

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

CCRi and others

Microsoft

quasardb

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2018

2014

1989

2009

2020

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.1, July 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

depending on storage layer

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

Transient mode

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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